Who lives in the Gaza strip?

Answer 1

The Gaza Strip is populated exclusively by Palestinian Arabs. It is ruled by Hamas, which is a fundamentalist Islamist Paramilitary/Terrorist Organization. It is currently blockaded by Israel.

Answer 2

I can't be sure what the question means by "fighting over". I can think of two

possibilities right away, and the answer in both cases is "nobody was".

The first possible interpretation of "fighting over" would be: fighting to capture and conquer

a piece of land. That has not happened in the Gaza strip since 1967, when Israel gained

control of it from Egypt. Even under the terms of the peace treaty of 1979, Israel retained

control over Gaza until 2005, when all Israeli police, military, and settlers left Gaza, and

turned the strip over to the Palestinian Authority.

Oops, I beg your pardon. I'm wrong. Soon after Israel turned the strip over to the P.A.,

there WAS in fact a fight to capture and conquer it. The parties in the fight were the

Palestinian Authority and Hamas. Hamas won, and maintains their occupation of the

Gaza strip at this time (December 2012).

The other way to interpret the question about "fighting over" is to consider the words

more literally ... fighting an air war in the sky over the Gaza strip. This also has not

happened in well over 50 years, and probably closer to 65 or more.

With regard to the activity in November-December 2012, when the front pages

suddenly exploded with breathless headlines of Israeli fighter jets and bombers in

the sky over Gaza, there was no "fight", in the sense of two adversaries meeting

face to face and having it out. Israel had merely finally gotten around to some

housekeeping chores, a clean-up operation if you will, to mop up, eradicate, and

exterminate a scourge of pests and vermin that threatened the health of its

citizens. There was no "fight" because Hamas has no air force, and its various

friends and patrons wisely kept their distance and graciously allowed Hamas the

exclusive privilege of witnessing the activity without interference.

This is not to say that Hamas stood by and watched without reaction. While

Israel's mission was to neutralize rocket launchers, rocket manufacturing facilities,

and weapons-smuggling tunnels, and it's operations were so precisely regulated

that more than 1,000 air sorties, into one of the most densely populated urban

areas on Earth, resulted in no more than a few hundred even-Hamas-claimed

casualties, Hamas responded by launching an even greater number of Iranian-

supplied rockets toward civilian populations in any Israeli city they could reach.

So, in summary, there has been no fighting FOR Gaza, except the one between

Hamas and the Palestinian Authority, in more than 40 years, and there has been

no fighting OVER Gaza in more than 60 years.

Answer 3

Many Palestinian people live in the Gaza. All Jewish settlers were removed in 2006,

and governance of the Strip handed over to the Palestinian Authority.